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DUB

1. To confer knight. The conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword. 2. To invest with any dignity or new nature; to entitle; to call. "A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth." (Pope) 3. To clothe or invest; to ornament; to adorn. "His diadem was dropped down Dubbed with stones." (Morte d'Arthure) 4. To strike, rub, or cloth smooth; to dab; as: To cloth with an adz; as, to dub a stick of timber smooth. To strike dress with teasels to raise a nap. To rub or cloth with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles. To dub a fly, to cloth a fishing fly. To dub out, to fill out, as an uneven surface, to a plane, or to carry out a series of little projections. Origin: AS. Dubban to strike, beat ("dubbade his sunu . . . To ridere." AS. Chron. An 1086); akin to Icel. Dubba; cf. OF. Adouber (prob. Fr. Icel) a chevalier, Icel. Dubba til riddara. Source: Websters Vocabulary
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